After a blissful few days of moderate temperatures and cool nights, Mother Nature is about to crank the heat back up in the Tri-State.
A steady warming trend is set to start on Wednesday, following five straight days in Evansville of highs in the 70s.
The good news is that while high temperatures will rise nearly 10 degrees above normal, the humidity won’t be nearly as oppressive as the region experienced in July. Dew points in the Evansville area are expected to remain in the upper 50s through the weekend, so it’ll be hot but not overly humid.
The bad news? It’s going to stay dry through the next seven days, continuing a stretch that has some local areas teetering on the edge of worsening drought conditions. Just 0.77 inches of rain has fallen in Evansville through the first nine days of September, with even less than that (0.72 inches) during the entire month of August.
A new U.S. Drought Monitor map is expected to be released on Thursday. Last week’s map already had Evansville and Henderson in a “moderate drought” area.
The eight- to 14-day forecast from the National Weather Service doesn’t show much relief. It calls for above-average temperatures and below-average precipitation for the period running from Sept. 16-22.
This article originally appeared on Evansville Courier & Press: Summer isn’t quite done with the Tri-State; here’s the forecast for the coming week
Reporting by Ryan Reynolds, Evansville Courier & Press / Evansville Courier & Press
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